I would also suggest a personal heater you could bring that shuts itself off after a time. You can set it for like 5 hours or something.
When our heat or AC is broke we complain and it takes them weeks to come fix it. So we wait till it gets to the temp outside where it's an "emergancy" and we call late at night or on the weekend lol. They HAVE to come out then and it gets fixed real fast!
We know how to "cheat" the system lol.
My brother and his wife live in NC and I live in NJ. If it snows and we have to stop alot for Fantasia to potty, it takes us about 12 hours to get there. Of course my step-dad lives right down the road from my brother and he drives non stop (only potty break once or twice if my mom is lucky lol) and he makes it in about 9-10 hours. I am sure if I drove we could make it in that amount of time but because I don't drive, John has to drive the whole way and when he gets tired he stops and takes a cat nap for 5-30 mins depending on how tired he is. So that's another reason it takes us so long. It takes my brother a long time getting here too because he has two kids, and last year had one but it's still hard driving all that way with even one baby. They have only made the trip once with the two kids and they couldn't stop here. They went to see my sister-in-laws parents in PA and that's 5 hours from me so it was too far for them to come here
I miss my family all the time.